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'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdotes, from Boadicea to Betjeman' Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book Porter's facts are always at the service of his narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, Archbishop Runcie a timely and brilliant book' Claire Tomalin, Evening Standard
'A very clever, very important and very angry book. It is clever because it is by Roy Porter much the best and bravest thing he has yet written. It is important because it makes the whole sweep of London's unique history comprehensible and accessible in a way that no previous writer has ever managed to accomplish. And it is... Tovább

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'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdotes, from Boadicea to Betjeman' Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book Porter's facts are always at the service of his narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, Archbishop Runcie a timely and brilliant book' Claire Tomalin, Evening Standard
'A very clever, very important and very angry book. It is clever because it is by Roy Porter much the best and bravest thing he has yet written. It is important because it makes the whole sweep of London's unique history comprehensible and accessible in a way that no previous writer has ever managed to accomplish. And it is angry because it begins and concludes with a slashing, unanswerable indictment of Thatcherite misrule' David Cannadine, Independent on Sunday
'A lucid and lively chronicle London is a subject so vast, amorphous and labyrinthine that to write about it demands not merely great knowledge and understanding, but also self-restraint and a cool head. Fortunately, Mr Porter has these qualities in abundance' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
'Illuminating and enjoyable' Keith Thomas, Observer
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